The leaven of Truth: "Did not this parable
point a moral with
a prophecy, foretelling the second appearing in
the flesh of the Christ, Truth, hidden in
sacred secrecy from the visible world?"Science and Health, p. 118

This issue is a compilation of
excerpts from The Bible, the writings of Mary Baker
Eddy, The Christian Science Standard, and
theChristian Science Seminar (Class)
Notes.

Behind the Worlds
Agitation

". . . the momentous questions
that are now agitating the world" are those
questions relating to the second coming of Christ
and the place of Mary Baker Eddy in Scriptural
prophecy.

The Second Coming of Christ

QUESTION:
 Since Christ has come the second time, why
has this fact not been more widely recognized and
proclaimed?

QUESTION:
 How important is it to Christendom, and to
you individually, that Christs second coming
is here and now? Is it of minor importance so that
you spend but little time in contemplation and
meditation?

This lack of
knowledge in Christendom today, means the darkening
of the spiritual night around us. If the gloom can
be dissipated by the coming of Christ, if Christ
has commanded us to look, to watch, to be ready in
any hour for his coming, then that coming is of
preeminent interest. Its relation to the
circumstances and events of the present time are
such that no Christian can dare even for a moment
to be indifferent to it.

BEHIND THE WORLDS
AGITATION1

Mary Baker Eddy
placed a notice in The Christian Science Journal
of August, 1890 (Vol. VIII, p. 193), in which
she speaks of "the momentous questions that are now
agitating the world." Our world today is in an even
greater state of ferment and agitation than ever
before with no apparent solutions. Did Mrs. Eddy
give any indication as to the nature of these
"momentous questions"? The notice reads:

Mr. Editor:  The late articles
referring to me in July issue of the
JOURNAL, contain
presentiments that I object to having uttered or
written now in regard to myself. God alone
appoints the befitting path and place for each
of His children; and mankind should wait on Him,
and let the ages declare judgment. It is my
impression that at least a half century will
pass away before man is permitted to render his
public verdict on some of the momentous
questions that are now agitating the world.

The very real,
but unrecognized questions agitating the world in
this endtime are not those issues and events
reported in the press. Rather, they are those
questions relating to the second coming of Christ
and the place of Mrs. Eddy in Scriptural prophecy.
Jesus said that at the endtime "ye shall hear of
wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not
troubled: for all these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and
there shall be famines, and pestilences, and
earthquakes, in divers places. . . . And then shall
many be offended, and shall betray one another, and
shall hate one another. . . . But he that shall
endure unto the end, shall be saved. And this
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
world for a witness unto all nations; and then
shall the end come." (Matt. 24:6, 7, 10, 13,
14)

A year after Mrs.
Eddys notice in the Journal, Charles
A. L. Totten (First Lieutenant Fourth Artillery, U.
S. Army; Professor of Military Science and Tactics
at Yale University), a noted authority and writer
on chronologic prophecy, published a book titled
The Kings Daughter, which contained a
prophecy of the Second Advent. So well does Lt.
Totten describe the fulfilling of the mission of
the Second Advent, and so authoritative and
essential is this prophecy, that Judge Septimus J.
Hanna, C.S.D., quoted the full eleven-page text in
closing chapters of his Reminiscences of
Mary Baker Eddy. Tottens prophecies go well
beyond the 1943 official article, "Mrs. Eddys
Place."

MRS. EDDY AUTHENTICATES
TOTTEN PROPHECIES

Although Lt.
Totten was never a Christian Scientist, Mrs. Eddy
gave this prophecy both Scriptural and scientific
authenticity in her article titled "The Second
Advent" (Essays and Bible Lessons Ascribed to
Mary Baker Eddy; i.e., Carpenter "Red Book"
page 47) where she certifies:

C.A.L. Totten, U.S.A., in his excellent
work The Kings Daughter, writes,
"It was the creation of womanhood that
completed the equation which even yet we have
not fully solved." His prophecies are grounded
in Science. They reiterate the sacred Scriptural
records and the logical syllogisms in Science
and Health where the demonstration of being
starts with the manhood of being and rises to
womanhood as the Christ idea . . .

The prophecy of
Lt. Totten was reprinted in full in the April 1991
Standard. As explained therein, the prophecy
was written as if in a code, or a "parable," and
most people do not understand it. It does need to
be understood, however, in order to see how Judge
Hanna, and many other early students of Christian
Science, as well as Mrs. Eddy, viewed the Second
Advent and Mrs. Eddys place, at the turn of
the century. To this end the prophecy bears
repeating and extracts from it follow, along with
an interpretation of what seems "dark" and
"hidden,"  presented from the viewpoint of
the Hanna school of Christian Science teaching.
Some references having a bearing on the extracts
are first quoted here.

Generic man is
thought of as "collective man," or "mankind in
general." In Genesis 3:20 we read: "And Adam called
his wifes name Eve; because she was the
mother of all living." So, generic man is
considered by many to be the human race as
descended from "the mother of all living," 
the sons and daughters of Adam.

In
contrast to this, Mary Baker Eddy writes in
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures: "The woman in the Apocalypse
symbolizes generic man, the spiritual idea of God
[Christ]; . . ." (561:22-23) This is the
scientific sense of the term "generic man." Mrs.
Eddy explains "the spiritual idea" thus: "The
impersonation of the spiritual idea had a brief
history in the earthly life of our Master; but
of his kingdom there shall be no end,
for Christ, Gods idea, will eventually rule
all nations and peoples  imperatively,
absolutely, finally  with divine Science.
This immaculate idea, represented first by man
[Christ Jesus] and, according to the
Revelator, last by woman [Mary Baker Eddy],
will baptize with fire; . . ." (565:13-20)

In the book of
Revelation John states: "And there came unto me one
of the seven angels which had the seven vials full
of the seven last plagues, and talked with me,
saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride,
the Lambs wife. And he carried me away in the
spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me
that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out
of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: . . ."
(Rev. 21:9-11)

Writing further
on this subject, Mrs. Eddy states: "The Lambs
wife presents the unity of male and female as no
longer two wedded individuals, but as two
individual natures in one; and this compounded
spiritual individuality reflects God as
Father-Mother, not as a corporeal being. In this
divinely united spiritual consciousness, there is
no impediment to eternal bliss,  to the
perfectibility of Gods creation." (S&H
577:4)

EXTRACTS FROM TOTTENS
PROPHECY

The truth . . . has placed within
[our] hands the most potent key there
is, and if [we] employ it wisely it will
open up the true philosophy of all that is
taking place among the nations. The way to study
current events is to view them through this
lens. . . . From now on, the whole period, no
matter upon what scale of time we measure it,
will be crowded with startling events of every
description. It is useless to specify. All we
can say, and that with due solemnity, is:
"Watch!" for none but watchers can be
"prepared," and even they will be taken unaware
by the Great Event whose actual date no man on
earth can possibly foresee.

One cannot help
but be impressed with the grandeur Totten feels
regarding the "Great Event." In understanding this,
one has "the most potent key there is" to
understand what "is taking place among the nations.
The way to study current events is through this
lens." But he foresees the second coming as
occurring in a form that will be difficult to
recognize and cautions his readers to "watch," as
did the five wise virgins in the parable given by
Jesus, for if they do not they will miss the "Great
Event."

Let it be remembered, however, that the
teaching of the parable of the Wise and Foolish
Virgins implies that the coming of the
Bridegroom takes place some time during this
brief period of lamp-trimming, now already as we
believe begun. Our lamps are our Bibles, even
the two Testaments; for unless Gods Word
be a Lamp unto our feet, how shall we haste to
Him whose name is verily The Word of
God! The oil is in itself. It
is Faith, and is of Grace. It only saves! . . .

It is a noticeable fact that there is no
mention of the Bride in this parable!
Nevertheless the Spirit and the Bride say, Come!
and we may be confident that when the Lord
appears the Lady will be here to meet him! For
herein is the Mystery of Mysteries, and the
chief surprise of the five Virgins who are to be
her Bridesmaids!

While the five
wise virgins are trimming their lamps the
Bridegroom (Christ Jesus) comes. Totten points out
that there is a reason why there is no mention of
the Bride (Mrs. Eddy) in this parable of the ten
bridesmaids. Only the Groom (Christ Jesus) appears,
but the Lady (Mrs. Eddy) is there to meet him, and
is only visible to the five wise virgins who have
been doing their lamp trimming  studying
their Bibles (together with the Christian Science
textbook, Science and Health). It is only by
spiritual light that the representative of the
second coming (Mrs. Eddy) will be recognized and
accepted, Totten indicates here. He says, "For
herein is the Mystery of Mysteries, and the chief
surprise of the five Virgins" (they were expecting
a man at the second coming, and behold, here is a
woman instead!). The Mystery of Mysteries is why
could they not see the Bride? She was there to meet
the Groom and they could not see her! Even today
they cannot see her! It is still the Mystery of
Mysteries! They cannot see Womanhood in "the
fulness of Christ." So they are expecting a man
only.

It is impossible to contemplate the
fulness of Christ without taking into due
consideration His Bride and Counterpart; and as
one of the most familiar, it is hopeless to
attempt the solution of the problem of Humanity
by limiting ourselves to the analysis of Manhood
only.

Before the creation of Eve not even angels
could have formed any conception of the Divine
intentions. It was the creation of
Womanhood that completed the equation,
which even yet we have not fully solved.
[NOTE: This is the sentence quoted by Mrs.
Eddy.]

Totten here
explains why there is a "chief surprise" for the
Bridesmaids. It is because "the fulness of Christ"
had been contemplated "without taking into due
consideration His Bride and Counterpart" (which was
all the time divinely intended to be a woman).
Although these are "wise" virgins, they had thought
to "attempt the solution of the problem of Humanity
by limiting [themselves and the fulness of
Christ] to the analysis of Manhood only."

There had been a
time, "before the creation of Eve," when there was
only Manhood; and that was all that was
contemplated; it was all that thought could
conceive of at that time. Not even the angels could
conceive of the Divine intentions. But when
Womanhood was eventually presented to thought, that
is, when Eve was created, "the problem of Humanity"
was on the way to solution. While the creation of
Womanhood "completed the equation" yet it was not
fully solved. The solution lay in being able to
recognize Womanhood as necessary in completing the
equation of the "fulness of Christ." Even the five
wise Bridesmaids had some difficulty with this. And
while the "Lady" (Mrs. Eddy) was there to meet her
"Lord," (Christ Jesus) she is not mentioned in the
parable because Humanity could not quite accept
this. "Not even the angels could have formed any
conception of the Divine intentions" to complete
the fulness of Christ with Woman.

In their plainest literal sense, and in
a far deeper spiritual one, these double types
are always male and female, part and
counterpart, Lord and Lady, Bride and Groom.
They have been joined by God from the beginning,
and it is certain that no man may put
them asunder. This is not a question of marrying
and giving in marriage, for it pertains to
matters superior to all possibility of permanent
divorce, and all who are accounted worthy to
attain unto the Dispensation now at hand will be
Two in One by virtue of the very
Philosophy of Creation.

But we may pass beyond the Gates of Eden to
penetrate to its central precincts without
losing this supreme conception. When, at his
creation, Adam stood alone, a dual being though
he knew it not!  in the midst of the
garden, behold two Trees, the one of Life, the
other of Knowledge.

The fruit of the latter, however, was not for
that Dispensation, and we may be sure its
prohibition was a blessing, even as the trespass
of our progenitors hath wrought persistent harm.
Nevertheless there was a significant fitness
even in the way whereby this trespass came
about. For of the two trees, the fruit of the
forbidden one was the promise of "Beauty" rather
than of "Strength," and it was Eve, the type
thereof, who plucked its fruit!

What Totten is
developing here is that while these "double types
are always male and female, part and counterpart,
Lord and Lady, Bride and Groom," the Manhood and
Womanhood which make up "the fulness of Christ"
have been "joined of God from the beginning." So
this Bride (Mrs. Eddy) and Groom (Christ Jesus)
were not united by means of a marriage of two
persons. Their union was "superior to all
possibility of permanent divorce." That is, their
union was in fact "Two in One," (Christ Jesus and
Mrs. Eddy existing in one entity). And this is "the
very philosophy of Creation," for "all who are
accounted worthy to attain" this Dispensation (that
is, to be a part of the Great Event known as the
second coming) must recognize himself/herself as
also "Two in One."

Totten then goes
on to explain that if we go into the Garden of Eden
and observe Adam we see that at his creation he was
a "dual being." Two in one. He did not, however,
know this. His duality was illustrated by the two
trees in the midst of the Garden  one of
"Life," the other of "Knowledge." The fruit of the
Tree of "Knowledge" (Science), however was not for
that Dispensation, but for a subsequent one. They
were to eat from the Tree of "Life" at that
Dispensation; the Tree of "Knowledge," or Science,
would come at a later period. If plucked and eaten
at that period of time it would be a knowledge of
"good and evil" combined, and would lead to death,
which has been the lot of the progeny of Adam and
Eve.

These two trees
and their fruits represented the duality of
manhood, and the fact that they related to two
Dispensations. The Tree of "Knowledge" related to
"Beauty" or the female element. Thus it was that
Eve later "plucked its fruit"!

The immediate
consequence was their expulsion. They were
excluded from access to both trees, and
began at once to die. Yet at the fall of Eden
the Cherubim were placed as living witnesses of
what they left behind, and between them, still,
doth God meet those who seek Him in their
hearts.

For even when
the High Priest reached the Holiest of Holies
and stood between the Cherubim that overshadowed
the Shekinah, behold the type in purest gold,
and beaten out of one piece, even as Adam and
Eve, the "image" and the "likeness" of Jehovah,
were originally made together, and, though
cloven thereafter in twain, are still "one flesh
forever!"

Adam and Eve were
expelled from Eden, and "excluded from access to
both trees," yet two cherubim were placed at the
gate "as living witnesses of what they left behind"
 i.e., the Tree of eternal "Life" and the
Tree of "Knowledge." The two cherubim  two
witnesses  are permanent reminders of these
two trees:  "Life," Strength; "Knowledge"
(Science), Beauty. These trees were represented in
the dual nature of Adam, as well as in the two
"living witnesses" placed at the Gate of Eden.
Everyone who is to "regain the Paradise which lies
beyond" must pass between these two witnesses,
 Life Eternal, and Divine Science, 
must recognize them and accept them in their
manifestation in human history, in the earthly
Advents of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy.

The High Priest
had to stand between these two cherubim, or two
"living witnesses," when he reached the Holiest of
Holies. Yet these two types of purest gold were
made from one piece of gold. Even so Adam and Eve
were made together; were one piece. Though at one
point in the Garden, they were "cloven" or divided,
the fact remains that they are "one flesh forever."
That is, they were never really divided; not even
in the Garden  though it seemed they
were.

The Strength and Beauty of this
fundamental Mystery is deeply concealed in
Manhood and its better Counterpart; but the
pearl of its chief interpretation is far too
precious for exposure in the common market place
of this Dispensation! whoso hath eyes,
therefore, to see this, let him see; and if a
voice speaks, let him who hath ears, wherewith
to hear, perceive, and be discreet. . .

The Woman clothed in the Sun has been
revealed in Heaven, and, if upon the Earth, is
still veiled as a gem in its matrix until set
and fashioned by the Master hand. She is the
Anti-type of our Better, and the Glory of our
Dual Nature, and will be found by those who seek
her. Her name is Beauty, and she is Wisdom, the
Companion of Strength; She is the Song of
Solomon and the Daughter of the King!

While it is
difficult to grasp the fact that Adam and Eve never
became divided, yet we must accept this in order to
understand the Second Advent. This division of
"Strength [Adam] and Beauty [Eve]
is a fundamental Mystery," that is, it is difficult
to comprehend, and for that reason it is "deeply
concealed in Manhood [Christ Jesus] and its
better Counterpart [Mrs. Eddy]; but the
pearl of its chief interpretation is far too
precious for exposure in the common market of this
Dispensation!" He goes on to say in effect, if you
can see what is being written here, then by all
means accept it. If a voice from heaven speaks to
you and opens your thinking to the deeply concealed
mystery of the Second Advent, then listen.

Although Totten
knew nothing of Christian Science and Mrs. Eddy at
that time, his calculations in chronologic prophecy
told him the time had come for the second coming of
Christ. So he writes: "It is Here  if thou
canst bear it  but, in a manner that we wot
not, hath it come." He is telling his readers that
the Second Advent has arrived. He informs his
readers that because it has come as a Woman few
will recognize it. He goes on to say that "even as
Eve was a surprise to Adam" when he woke up and
found Eve at his side, so we today have a much
greater surprise in store for us than Adam had in
his discovery of Eve. It will require an awakening
process. We must "awake, and see the Bridegroom
[Christ Jesus] and the Bride [Mrs.
Eddy]!" Christendom has been expecting the
Second Advent to be the return of the man
Jesus.

The Second Advent
is to be fulfilled in "The Woman clothed in the
Sun" which "has been revealed in Heaven" but upon
earth is still veiled  is a "Mystery." Totten
uses the expression: "veiled as a gem in its matrix
until set and fashioned by the Master hand." It
will take time and patience, figuratively speaking,
to grasp this spiritual fact, as that taken by a
jeweler to gradually shape a gem into its final
beauty and place it into a setting. As Adam awoke
and found Eve, it will take humanity some time to
awake to find Mrs. Eddy with Christ Jesus.

"She [Mrs.
Eddy] is the Anti-type [def.: an
individual that exhibits the essential features of
an original] of our Better
[Christ], and the Glory of our Dual Nature,
and will be found by those who seek her." This is
quite contrary to the expectations of Christendom
in its view of the second coming. It believes
Christ Jesus is to appear with fanfare as a readily
identifiable person. It is not thought that
Christendom must seek him. But even though
concealed in a mystery, "Her [Mrs.
Eddys] name is Beauty, and she is Wisdom,
the Companion of Strength [Christ Jesus];
She is the Song of Solomon and the Daughter of the
King!"

But where may she be found? . . . Seek
her in spirit and who shall say but that Her
spirit shall seek thee! Yet know that the day of
her manifestation hasteth, and that when the
opened eyes of all Mankind behold Her they will
see Him whom they pierced; for she is One with
Him even as He is one with God.

When the morning stars sang together they
were there, and in the same degree, begotten,
they were One of old. The elders in the college
of Inspiration called Her the "work mistress" of
Him by whom all things were made, even of
Christ, the Logos, for she is His Bride
indeed.

Totten tells his
readers not to look for her in a geographical
location, but to seek her in spirit. As this is
done "the day of her manifestation" depends upon
the awakening of individuals to comprehend the
mystery of "Two in One." Until humanity is able to
do this, "her manifestation" will be limited. They
will not recognize her until they are able to
understand that when the "eyes of all Mankind" are
opened to see "Her [Mrs. Eddy] they will
see Him [Christ Jesus] whom they pierced
[on the cross]; for she [Mrs. Eddy]
is One with Him [Christ Jesus]."

"When the morning
stars sang together they [Jesus and Mrs.
Eddy] were there." That is, they have existed
together throughout eternity. They exist from "of
old" in the "same degree," for they have always
been "One of old," begotten together.

She (Mrs. Eddy)
is "the work mistress of Him by whom
all things were made." In John we read: "All things
were made by him [Christ Jesus and Mary Baker
Eddy]; and without him was not anything made
that was made." (John 1:3) In Science and
Health we read: "The woman in the Apocalypse
symbolizes generic man, the spiritual idea of God;
. . ." (561:22-23) For she is the "work mistress."
All things that were made are her handiwork,
insofar as Christ is understood in the above
reference in John.

But dost thou answer: "How can this
thing be, and what is this thou sayest, for
behold it is too dark, why speakest thou in
parables?" The reply is: Search deeper into
Truth. Thou canst not sound the depths of
wisdom, nor canst thou scale the heights that
crown her courts, yet thou canst sound, and
scale, and according to thy stature thou shalt
find.

Behold there is a new thing under the sun.
For a Woman hath compassed a Man! [See Jer.
31:22] But consider now that of old it was
the Man, Adam, that originally Compassed a
Woman,  for was not Eve drawn from his
side?

And what if God reverse the process! 
shall anything be too hard for Jehovah? Surely
if instead of taking a Woman-child from a man,
He shall elect to draw a Man-child from a Woman
he is able, and if so be he shall already
have fulfilled that which he hath purposed
of old,  for the last shall be first
although the first shall still be last! 
be not presumptuous with thy judgment until he
taketh thee into his counsel!

Totten
anticipates the response to his "parable." "How can
this thing be, and what is this thou sayest, for
behold it is too dark, why speakest thou in
parables?" His response is that the Second Advent
will not manifest itself in the way Christendom has
long believed. It can only be recognized as one
searches "deeper into Truth." It can only be
manifested as the result of spiritual light, not
secular or academic wisdom. As he says, "Thou canst
not sound the depths of wisdom, nor canst thou
scale the heights that crown her courts, yet thou
canst sound, and scale, and according to thy
[spiritual] stature thou shalt find."

We are
experiencing "a new thing under the sun." Formerly
Adam compassed Eve as a dual being. In the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries we have a
process instituted of God, which is the reverse of
the experience of Adam and Eve. We have a Woman
compassing a man; that is, according to the Totten
prophecy, Mrs. Eddy compassing Christ Jesus. Totten
expresses the reluctance of the human mind to
accept this: "How can this thing be, and what is
this thou sayest, for behold it is too dark, why
speakest thou in parables?"

God has already
"fulfilled that which He hath purposed of old,
 for the last shall be first although the
first shall still be last"! What God purposed for
the last, that is, a woman compassing a man, is
just as possible spiritually and humanly as the
first, that is, Eve being taken from Adam. How many
people accept that Eve was taken from Adam? Have
they any difficulty in believing that? Why then is
it so difficult to accept that Mrs. Eddy compasses
Christ Jesus? Is this not a "momentous question," a
"Mystery of Mysteries"?

The "glorious
appearing of the Lord" reveals Christ as having
"two individual natures in one." (S&H 577:4)
The scientific realization of this fact destroys
the illusion that Eve was ever separated from Adam,
and accordingly draws material history to a close
(No and Yes 45:25-27) through understanding
the "Woman clothed with the sun." (Rev. 12)

PROHIBITION PERIOD
TERMINATED

"It is the glory
of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings
is to search out a matter."  Proverbs
25:2.

In her 1890
Journal notice, previously quoted on page 2
of this Standard, Mrs. Eddy objected to
"presentiments [perceptions; conceptions].
. . uttered or written [then] in regard to
[herself];" that "mankind should wait on
Him;" that it was her "impression that at
least a half century would pass away before man is
permitted [by whom?] to render his public
verdict on some of the momentous questions that
[were then and] are now agitating the
world." Who imposed this prohibition? Obviously,
God. Thereafter, whenever Mrs. Eddy was confronted
to give a public statement concerning her place in
prophecy, it is said she would side-step. This is
consistent with her "impression" that God would not
permit a public verdict for at least a half
century. That prohibition period is now over. God
now allows man to render his public verdict. What
better authority for such rendering than the above
Totten statement, validated by Mrs. Eddy
herself?

THE SECOND COMING2

The greatest
event in all history has now taken place. Christ
has appeared in the flesh the second time.

Science and
Health states:

"The
impersonation of the spiritual idea
[Christ] had a brief history in the earthly
life of our Master; but of his kingdom there
shall be no end, for Christ, Gods idea,
will eventually rule all nations and peoples 
imperatively, absolutely, finally  with
divine Science. This immaculate idea
[Christ], represented first by man
[Jesus] and, according to the Revelator,
last by woman [Mary Baker Eddy], will
baptize with fire; . . ." (S&H 565:13-20)

Coming in the
flesh the second time, Christ has come in the form
of a woman, Mrs. Eddy. The second coming must be
accepted in this form and recognized as spiritually
fulfilling the prophecies of Scripture. "Woman is
the highest species of man, . . ." (Un. 51:14) That
is why the second coming was in the form of a
woman.

To realize the
fact that Christ has come sounds the chorus of
angels who sing, "Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will toward men." (Luke 2:14)
The true followers of Christian Science know that
Christ has come in the flesh in Mary Baker
Eddy.

The coming of
Christ is of supreme importance. No other event or
process is of as great importance. It is up to each
Christian Scientist to reach that determination as
to its importance. Our determination of this event
 the second coming  must be elevated to
reach the same determination as that given in the
Bible.

For instance, the
moment we open the Bible we find in Adam a picture
which anticipates the second coming, for St. Paul
tells us that Adam "is the figure of him that was
to come." (Rom. 5:14)

The Apostle Jude
tells us that Enoch, the seventh generation from
Adam, and the first to transfigure, prophesies that
the Lord is coming in glory at his Second Advent
"with ten thousands of his saints, To execute
judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds. . .
." (Jude 1:14-15) Christian Scientists must see
Mrs. Eddy as the Christ idea with ten thousands of
saints present to heal all manner of sickness and
sin.

Jacob had a
vision of the splendor of the coming of Christ
when, surrounded by the angelic host, the Lord God
looked down from the height of the golden ladder.
(Gen. 49:10; Gen. 28:12-14. See note "d" in
Scofield, p. 42.) Do you see Mrs. Eddy as
the one whom God has preordained and specially
chosen to be His representative of the Christ?

It is said that
Moses saw the revelation of Christ in the burning
bush, as the coming one, coming in triumph. Moses,
the deliverer of his people, prefigured Christ the
great deliverer. Do you see Mary Baker Eddy as the
deliverer of America and Great Britain and the rest
of the world from all evil in the end time?

The book of
Psalms is full of utterances of his coming and
portraying the movement in heaven when the whole
universe will be attuned to the music of his kingly
descent. We must see Mrs. Eddy as a person of
kingly and queenly authority.

A writer on the
subject of "The Coming of Christ" says that Isaiah
spells it out in notes of seraphic splendor, and
also in the announcement of earths response
from exalted mountains, trembling earth and tossing
seas. We are seeing this response today as the
result of the coming of Mrs. Eddy, which is causing
these things to happen in the world today.

Ezekiel beheld
Christ coming in the chariots of spiritual
illumination and glory.

Daniel in his
visions of chronologic prophecy sets Christ in the
center of ten thousand times ten thousand of
shining angels, coming to take unto himself the
crowns of all the kings of the earth, as King of
kings, and Lord of lords. We must see Mrs. Eddy as
Christ taking the crowns of all the kings and
mighty potentates of the earth.

The last
utterance of the Old Testament, as it is of the
New, is, that he is coming at the Second Advent
with the Sun of righteousness arising with healing
in his wings. We must recognize this as prophesying
the second coming in the person of Mary Baker
Eddy.

When you open the
New Testament you already hear sounds of the Second
Advent before you hear the echoes of the first.
(See Matt. 3; Scofield notes 1 and 2.) John the
Baptist talks of the second coming in the rulership
of Christ over the nations, not of the first. The
gospel of the Son of God himself is taken up, not
with his first coming, but with the second in the
references to his kingdom. In parable and
exhortation, before his disciples, before the
multitude, and when arraigned before his judges, he
talks of his coming again. On the eve of his
departure from this world, he comforts his
disciples with the thought that he is coming again
to receive them unto himself.

No sooner has he
gone out of sight into heaven, than two angels come
down with swift descent and hurried speech to tell
the disciples as they gaze heavenward that this
same Jesus shall come again.

On the Day of
Pentecost, Peter finds the emphasis of his power in
the declaration that this Jesus who has been
crucified, dead, buried, raised again, and ascended
to the throne of the Highest, is coming from thence
in the plenitude of his kingly power. (Acts 2)

In writing his
epistle to the Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul
closes each chapter of both epistles with the
declaration that the Lord, even the Son of God, is
coming again.

Peter, James and
John join in the same testimony: Peter, that the
appearing and glory of the Lord is the longing of
his heart; James, that he who is the judge already
stands at the door; and John, the Beloved, that the
very hope of that coming so exercises his heart
that he, as all who look for him, "purifieth
himself, even as he is pure." So full is the
Apostle John of this fact of the coming, that he
devotes one whole book of twenty-two chapters to
the description of it. Between portrayals of the
most solemn import, he represents the Lord himself,
ten times, crying down from heaven to the listening
ears: "Behold, I come quickly;" and the last
utterance from the unseen Holy, from the lips of
the Son of God himself, is the masterful assurance
that he is coming, surely coming.

Christian
Scientists desire to demonstrate the
"Christ-healing" in their lives and in their work
for others, but can they do this without
recognizing that the Christ has come "in the flesh"
the second time? And that that coming is in the
person of Mary Baker Eddy? As the
"woman-representative" (S&H 565:18-19) she is
the equal of Jesus, the man-representative.

The second
coming, the greatest of all events  is
mentioned from one end of the Bible to the other,
in type and figure, in form and symbol, in open
prophecy and in allusive utterance, in exhortation
and discourse. It is mentioned in connection with
every sublime promise; with the promise of likeness
to Christ, satisfaction of soul, victory over
death, victory over sin and Satan, and deliverance
of the earth from the bondage of corruption.

When the Apostle
exhorts us to meet together on the Lords day
and not to forsake by any means the assembling of
ourselves together, he does so in view of the
coming of the Lady. When he bids us break bread it
is because we do show forth the Lords death
till she comes. We are exhorted to love God, to
love one another, to patience, to a holy life, to
watchfulness, to Christian activity, to moderation,
to abiding in Him, against judging one another, to
steadfastness, to pastoral fidelity, to
faithfulness in preaching, because she is
coming.

In fact, this
coming is declared to be the central chord of all
vital Christian life; and it is touched upon again
and again by exhortation and illustration as the
exalted incentive and unfailing impulse. It is said
to be spoken of in one way or another in at least
every twenty verses of the New Testament, and is
thus above and beyond any other fact or doctrine of
Scripture, preeminently predominant.

To admit, as it
must be admitted, that the second coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ has such a preeminence in Holy
Scripture, that as to statement it easily outranks
any other subject in the whole scale and scheme of
revelation, and then to say that it is a matter of
little or no importance and ought not to engage the
serious attention of the devout student of the Word
of God, is to be guilty of limitless illogic.

What does it mean
for us to recognize Mary Baker Eddy as the second
coming in the flesh of the Christ? It means that
her coming and the recognition of it will drive
away the deepening spiritual night which is
developing all around us; the spiritual gloom will
be dissipated as we recognize her as the second
coming.

As we recognize
Mrs. Eddy as the second coming of Jesus Christ, as
we are commanded by the Bible to do  he
commands us to watch for him and be ready at any
hour for his appearance  it means the end of
war and the reign of peace; so we should pray for
this recognition to become universal in order to
prevent contending armies from breaking and
shattering into bloody wars. Her relation to the
circumstances and events of the present hour are
such that no Christian can dare, even for a moment,
to be indifferent to it.

This recognition
of Mary Baker Eddy means your deliverance from the
grave; it means your translation into immortality;
it means your glad meeting and fellowship with
those who have passed through the silent gates. You
must be in a state of expectation and desire for
this recognition and acceptance.

This coming was
to be without warning; then you have no time to
spend in idle pleasure and careless indifference,
not just because your individual well being and
things would be at stake, but because of your
fellow beings who have no awareness of their life
in God and His Christ. For their sakes you should
be up and doing, crying in their ears the gospel of
peace, warning them that they have no time to
waste.

Christ as a
living, visible, fleshly presence has come, and
every closing day and breaking morning we must see
her face and answer her call.

(S. C. Larkin Collection, author
unknown)

ONE CHRIST3

"There is only
one Christ, and for Mrs. Eddy to be Christ as well
as Jesus to be Christ, she has to encompass Jesus
as indicated in Jeremiah 31:22, for the Lord
hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman
shall compass a man. It is not Mrs. Eddy who
presents herself as Christ, it is the motherhood of
God that is revealing her as Christ and causes her
to encompass, not displace, Jesus (reversing the
Adam allegory of his division into two persons).
With the Christ seen in this two-in-one aspect, the
displacement factor is resolved, and the
recognition of Mrs. Eddy as Christ could be
published.

MRS. EDDY SEES HERSELF AS CHRIST
MARY4

"The
impersonation of the spiritual idea had a brief
history in the earthly life of our Master; but
of his kingdom there shall be no end,
for Christ, Gods idea, will eventually rule
all nations and peoples  imperatively,
absolutely, finally  with divine Science.
This immaculate idea, represented first by man
and, according to the Revelator, last by woman,
will baptize with fire; and the fiery baptism will
burn up the chaff of error with the fervent heat of
Truth and Love, melting and purifying even the gold
of human character." (Science and Health, p.
565)

Dr. Alfred E.
Baker, a former Quaker and a student of Mrs. Eddy,
taught several obstetric courses in the Board of
Education of The Mother Church. Dr. and Mrs. Baker
were often called upon by Mrs. Eddy to give
specific metaphysical support to the Movement. In
one such instance Mrs. Eddy furnished Dr. Baker a
text each day to use in his support work over a
four-week period. One of these daily texts given
him reads:

Judge Septimus J.
Hanna, C.S.D., appointed President of the
Massachusetts Metaphysical College by Mrs. Eddy
with life tenure, wrote a "Brief" (see publication
list) in which he has this to say:

The clearer conception which I feel has
come to me as the result of a more careful and
systematic study of the Bible and our
Leaders writings on this subject has also
given me an increased perception of the
significance of Christ and Christmas,
especially this verse:

As in blest Palestinas hour,
So in our age,
Tis the same hand unfolds His
power,
And writes the page.

We must recognize
the fact that Fatherhood and Motherhood are
embraced within the Godhead. The expression of the
Godhead then must include the male and female.
Christ Jesus would not be a full expression of
divine Principle if he did not reflect, in his
character, the male and female.

"[B]lest
Palestinas hour" refers to Christ Jesus; "our
age" refers to Christ Mary. Since "Tis the
same hand [both male and female, devoid
of sex,  two individuals in one 
that] unfolds His power and writes the page,"
then this "hand" must belong to the woman who wrote
the book, and who "compasses a man." (Jer. 31:22)
See pages 2-3 of this issue where Mrs. Eddy
authenticates Tottens prophecy of the woman
encompassing the man.

This verse that
Hanna quotes must necessarily be interpreted
together with the picture which accompanies it,
"Christian Unity," showing hands joined, two in one
("Tis the same hand"). Then, the picture
which follows, "Truth versus Error," portrays the
Lambs wife, Christ Mary, the woman with the
book, who is now two individuals in one
individuality. (Science and Health, p.
577:4-8)

This woman is the
highest visible idea in our age and her name,
Christ Mary, (the God-anointed and God-appointed,
the known of God) is to be given to Christendom in
accord with Mrs. Eddys prophecy. The new name
reflects the compounded spiritual individuality of
the Messiah. (Pulpit and Press, 22:9)

THE FOUNDATION  THE ROCK

OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH:
THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
MARY BAKER EDDY AS THE SECOND REPRESENTATIVE OF
CHRIST 5

When she
[Mrs. Eddy] refers to herself as Christ
Mary, is she not recognizing herself as the second
representative of Christ? When Peter declared,
"Thou art the Christ," he was acknowledging Jesus
as Christ in the flesh, the impersonation of
the spiritual idea,  the first
representative of Christ. This inspired recognition
of Jesus as Christ was the foundation [the
rock] of the Christian church; and in our day,
it is the inspired recognition of Mary Baker Eddy
as the second representative of Christ in the flesh
that is the foundation [the rock] of the
Christian Science church.

We hold that the
time has come for Mrs. Eddy to be recognized more
completely in her spiritual identity as the second
appearing of Christ.

As evidence of the original position of Mrs.
Eddy's church during its first half century, one of
the First Readers in The Mother Church appointed by
Mrs. Eddy in 1902, said:

"It is of first importance to see Mrs. Eddy
rightly as the woman of prophecy referred to in the
Apocalypse, as the one through whom the Comforter
came, the second coming of Christ. Unless we see
that this revelation came through Mrs. Eddy under
divine inspiration, and see it as the inspired word
of God, we are not seeing Christian Science
rightly. Jesus and Mrs. Eddy are the two anointed
ones and must be seen as such, just as Jesus in the
flesh must be seen as the one who established the
first coming of the Christ, back of whom was the
divinely royal man, so Mrs. Eddy in the
flesh must be seen as the one who established
the second coming of the Christ, back of whom was
the divinely royal woman, the God-crowned woman of
the 12th chapter of the Apocalypse."

"All the people need, in order to love and
adopt Christian Science, is a true sense of its
Founder. In proportion as they have it, will our
Cause advance."

- We Knew Mary Baker Eddy,First
Series, p. 40

". . . the grand necessity of existence is
to gain the true idea of what constitutes the
kingdom of heaven in man. This goal is never
reached while we . . . entertain a false estimate
of anyone whom God has appointed to voice His Word.
Again, without a correct sense of its highest
visible idea, we can never understand the
divine Principle."

- Science and Health,560:13-19

". . . the Lord hath created a new thing in the
earth, A woman shall compass a man."

- Jeremiah 31:22

"And I will give power unto my two
witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand
two hundred and threescore days, clothed in
sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the
two candlesticks standing before the God of the
earth."

- Revelation 11: 3, 4

"Then answered I, and said unto him, What are
these two olive trees upon the right side of the
candlestick and upon the left side thereof? And I
answered again, and said unto him, What be these
two olive branches which through the two golden
pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And
he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what
these be? And I said, No, my lord. Then said he,
These are the two anointed ones, that stand by
the Lord of the whole earth."

- Zechariah 4:11-14

"And God made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light
to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God
set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and
over the night, and to divide the light from the
darkness: and God saw that it was good."

- Genesis 1:16-18

"But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be
little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of
thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be
ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from
of old, from everlasting. Therefore will he give
them up, until the time that she which travaileth
hath brought forth: then the remnant of his
brethren shall return unto the children of
Israel."

- Micah 5:2, 3

"As Elias presented the idea of the fatherhood
of God, which Jesus afterwards manifested, so the
Revelator completed this figure with woman,
typifying the spiritual idea of God's
motherhood."

- Science and Health, 562:3-7

"[Jesus'] parable of the 'leaven, which
a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole was leavened,' impels the inference
that the spiritual leaven signifies the Science of
Christ and its spiritual interpretation . . . .

"Did not this parable point a moral with a
prophecy, foretelling the second appearing in
the flesh of the Christ, Truth, hidden in
sacred secrecy from the visible world?"

- Science and Health, 117:31-3,
6

"The impersonation of the spiritual idea had a
brief history in the earthly life of our Master;
but 'of his kingdom there shall be no end,' for
Christ, God's idea, will eventually rule all
nations and peoples - imperatively, absolutely,
finally - with divine Science. This immaculate
idea, represented first by man and, according to
the Revelator, last by woman . . . ."

- Science and Health,
565:13-19

"But the beast bowed before the Lamb: it was
supposed to have fought the manhood of God, that
Jesus represented; but it fell before the womanhood
of God, that presented the highest ideal of
Love."

- Christian Healing, 10:5-8

"It is authentically said that one expositor of
Daniel's dates fixed the year 1866 or 1867 for
the return of Christ - the return of the
spiritual idea to the material earth or antipode of
heaven. It is a marked coincidence that those dates
were the first two years of my discovery of
Christian Science."

- Miscellany, 181:27

"Alertness to Duty. Article VIII, Sect. 6. It
shall be the duty of every member of this Church to
defend himself daily against aggressive mental
suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to
neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and
to mankind. By his works he shall be judged, - and
justified or condemned."

- Church Manual, p. 42

"Our whole salvation rests upon the manner in
which we treat her, since the Way comes to us
through her and God demands that we love our
neighbor by having the spiritual sense of our
neighbor, by having the spiritual
sense of our Teacher and Mother as
God's idea that we must love and
honor. . . . Our material sense of Mrs. Eddy
is person or a personal sense, which is a dishonor
to her and God, for God's idea of her is the
spiritual sense of man; namely, the
Way, the Truth, the Life,Christ, the spiritual sense of Love,
of good, which is the divine Science of God and
man."

- Course in Divinity and General
Collectanea (Blue Book), p.100

Note: "The statements recorded by Mrs.
Eddy's students were written down within a few
moments after they were made . . ." pp. vii &
viii.

"Attacks on the Discoverer and Founder of
Christian Science are attacks on the Cause
itself. When will you see this, and stop
these efforts of animal magnetism to destroy us?
The students alone will be responsible if
these demon schemes are not ended. Yet who will
bear this cross? See Matt. 10:33 [But whosoever
shall deny me before man, him will I also
deny before my Father which is in heaven.]"

"What is a way-shower? There is a human and a
divine meaning. A way-shower is that which shows
the way; it must be some thing or some one. Jesus
was the Way-shower, the Christ with him, and if he
had not been, where would we be? He showed the way
as the masculine idea of Principle, then woman
took it up at that point - the ascending
thought in the scale - and is showing the way,
thus representing the male and female
Principle (the male and female of God's
creating).

"Is there anything in the world of more
importance than holding up the hands of the
way-shower? No. If they had all done that with
Jesus, we would be in the millennium."

- Blue Book, p. 23

"For the world to understand me in my true
light, and life, would do more for our Cause than
aught else could. This I learn from the fact that
the enemy tries harder to hide these two things
from the world than to win any other points. Also
Jesus' life and character in
their first appearing were
treated in like manner. And I regret to see that
loyal students are not more awake to this great
demand in their measures to meet the enemies'
tactics."

- Blue Book, p. 112

"When a student loses the true sense of me, and
what I do, he is at the threshold of the plunge so
many make into darkness, believing that darkness is
a greater light."